This book explores the main concerns for grappling with increasing environmental disasters and examines how environmental disasters are understood by states, corporations, and non-government organizations nationally and internationally.

Susan Park is Professor of Global Governance in the Discipline of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. She focuses on how International Organisations and global governance can become greener and more accountable, particularly in the transition to renewable energy.

Introduction: The politics of 21st century environmental disasters 1. The role of the Sovereign state in 21st century environmental disasters 2. Planetary disasters: moving the UN disaster risk reduction framework into cosmopolitised reality 3. Rehabilitating Ranger uranium mine:scientific uncertainty, deep futures and the production of ignorance 4. Disaster? No surprise 5. Extractive industry disasters and community responses: a typology of vulnerable subjects